Tag: safety
Your Views: Free visitor parking harms the environment
To the editor:
If Alexandria’s leaders are really interested in improving the environment and lowering the carbon footprint they should get rid of free visitor...
Your Views: Cars are worse than scooters
To the editor:
I would like to respond to the Alexandria Times’ series on the scooter pilot program.
The subtitle of the third article in the...
Your Views: Alexandria has a problem with electronic scooters
To the editor:
I imagine that you have received dozens of letters about the scooters in Old Town, but I thought I’d add my voice...
Our View: E-scooters and safety are contradictions
The kindest phrase we can find to describe the city’s transportation philosophy – which purportedly prioritizes safety – is “wildly contradictory.”
The schizophrenic approach to...
Scooters in Alexandria Part 3: City’s scooter program raises safety concerns
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Scooters first started rolling into Alexandria late last year, bringing with them a wave of anxiety over public safety.
The city...
Your Views: Listen to residents on Seminary lane issue
To the editor:
Alexandria’s Department of Transportation and Environmental Services is recommending a series of changes to Seminary Road based on city staff’s confusing hybrid...
Your Views: Another scooter near miss
To the editor:
I have to concur with the letters to the editor concerning scooters in your April 18 paper. This past Monday, I was...
Your Views: Public safety must be budget priority
To the editor:
City council is engaged in what I believe is their most challenging annual task: finalizing the city’s budget. Because budget dollars are...
My View | Joe Sestak: Where you live matters
To the editor:
Calling Seminary Road “a corridor with a high number of KSI (killed or seriously injured) crashes,” last year the city proposed replacing...
Your Views: Strokes can strike seemingly healthy people
To the editor:
In response to the letter, “Learn to spot a stroke and save a life,” I wanted to share our family’s story so...
